Imagine turning forty-two years old then looking in the mirror and you look double your age. This is what smoking cigarettes will do to you. This ad by Nicotinell is trying to explain that smoking cigarettes will cause premature aging. In this image, there is a lady celebrating her forty-second birthday, but she doesn’t look forty-two at all. She looks like a grandmother in her eighties. I found this picture on Google Images while searching for PSA’s. I decided to go with this picture because it was really eye catching and very straight forward. This PSA targets cigarette smokers because the brand Nicotinell sells patches to stop nicotine addiction. It also says “Smoking causes premature aging” on the PSA also. This PSA illustrates a point by making it very obvious that smoking causes premature aging. This imagine is important to me because my mother smokes cigarettes and I want to show this paper to her when I am finished to hopefully get her to stop smoking cigarettes! This image can be analyzed by looking at eight rhetorical factors: character roles, setting, type of photo, distance from subject, orientation/camera angle, use of color, point of view and image manipulation. First, character roles. There is only one character is this PSA but she plays a major role in what they are trying to say. She is a forty-two-year-old lady that looks eighty years old. In this picture, she is lighting her cigarette on the candle which is the number four. The other candle is the number
III. Purpose and stance; Here’s where we “read” the ad and describe it – visual rhetoric
One of the ways that photography limits our understanding of the world is through the manipulation of images to trick us. In cigarette advertisements, the picture of the cigarettes is edited with vibrant colors and little details to the point that it starts to persuade the viewer to think that smoking is good. This is how companies manipulate their images to fool us. Others claim that it does not matter because the point that the advertisement is trying to make is that cigarettes are harmful, but this does not go through the viewers heads because
In the rhetorical analysis that is observed in the PSA, pathos is the most exploited in the majority of these ads. As it graphically exalts the emotions with situations in which the spectator can clearly relate. This announcement in particular considers a dialog between a mother and a student seconds before an accident is caused by texting and driving. The mother questions if the student is aware that it is not in her lane, if she is texting, and requests emphatically that she pay attention to the road because her children are in the car with her. The student responds by justifying her actions but is mortified when she acknowledges what is about to happen. She does not have
Approximately twenty percent of adults in the United States smoke cigarettes, it is this habit which is the number one cause of death that is easily preventable. Anti-smoking advertisements are seen throughout our society, usually showing the harmful effects of tobacco through graphic pictures or other shocking images. The advertisement I chose is a black and white image, showing a young man smoking a cigarette, with the smoke from it forming a gun pointed at his head. Off to the side appear the words, “Kill a cigarette, save a life. Yours.” The advertisement makes use of the three rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos through its image and implied meanings. Through this, the image is able to convey a strong sense of danger and bring awareness to the deadliness of smoking.
Another woman brings up to a little girl how smoking can increase your risk of aging. This advertisement shows logos into play. Logos is shown when it is stating the reasoning on why children should not start smoking. Pathos is also shown when the adults state the reason why one should not pick up a cigarette. The different kind of effects creates a sense of fear and avoidance of the product.
Visual arguments can bring to readers great impact with pathos, ethos, and logos. In the advertising from the page 78, there are evidence of visual with pathos, ethos, and logos. The advertising said “DON’T LET TEXTING BLIND YOU.” that is enough to arouse to reader’s attention emotionally. It is important that most public service ads make readers aware of the purpose of advertising by making them stand out and sometimes exciting because Just a moment's carelessness on the part of the drivers caused horrible or dreadful accidents. Also, in the advertising the driver’s eyesight looks like a dangerous situation. I am sure that every drivers have experienced that they had been texting while a driving. Maybe, many readers have ethically reflected
Advertisements are all over the place. Whether they are on the Internet, billboards, or in a magazine, there is no way of escaping them. They all have their target audience who the specifically created the ad for. In this ad, it targets mainly non-smokers and even smokers. The advertisement we are looking at is a woman’s mouth. Her mouth is slightly open and the inside is swallowed by a black hole. Her bright red lipstick grabs your attention. What disgusts you is her teeth. Her teeth have been replaced with vulgar. Cigarette buds. The advertisement utilizes the three rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos through its image and implied meanings. Through this, the image is able to convey a vividsense of disgust and promote awareness.
The second rhetorical appeal, ethos, also has an effect on the message behind the image. Kelly Ashcraft is the creator of the image used in the advertisement, she is by no means a well-known photographer except within her own circle and people who may have seen her work online. However, the audience is able to conclude several things about her character and credibility through this image. The audience can surmise that Ashcraft is trying to inspire a healthier way of living in viewers because of her choice to create an anti-smoking image. However, with ominous smoking images such as hers, it gives the impression that the image creator holds smokers in a negative light as people, not just the smoking aspect of their lives. At least, to smokers
Smoking continues to be an increasing problem in both the United States and around the world. Advertisements of many types continue to aid in lowering the use of cigarettes by teenagers. In this advertisement, published by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many rhetorical devices are used to help appeal to the audience’s senses, understanding, and perception on smoking cigarettes. Using a young woman in the advertisement shifts the focus towards teenagers that smoke cigarettes, have thought about smoking, or have been around others that do smoke. With the incorporation of the FDA’s “The Real Cost” campaign logo, facts about the outcome of smoking, and the photograph of the young girl's face, this advertisement serves the purpose of grabbing the attention of teenagers that use cigarettes and warns them of the negative outcomes of smoking by using certain appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
In the commercial created by the CDC “Terrie’s ad” a woman is in a hospital bed speaking against smoking cigarettes. Her voice is very difficult to understand, her skin has detrimentally changed, and the imagery portrayed is very disturbing to the audience. Terrie claims she started smoking as a teenager, and it is eventually released that she dies at the age of fifty-three from cancer. The purpose of this commercial is to stop people from smoking, ideally before they start. To reach this goal the creators of the video utilize multiple rhetorical appeals in an attempt to get across to the audience.
On this website, https://jessebpage.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/i-am-quite-the-cadbury/ you will discover an excellent example of an visual rhetoric outline. From glance at this article you will notice the visual example of the article is a picture of an gun being loaded with cigarettes instead of bullets. Hence the artist is trying to say that smoking cigarettes is like shooting bullets into your body. The damage would be irreparable. The artist also seeks to inform the reader of all the damage that a cigarette will do to your body. Therefor the artist sought to shock it audience into the reality that; "smoking kills; so why bother starting". Due to all the ruckus over how guns are one of the most powerful weapons in the world, the author defiantly
As medical marijuana is becoming legal, more advertisements for medical cannabis are being released. The background and color help shape the advertisement into a unique work of art that aims to grab peoples’ attention. This advertisement said, “I just saved my liver by switching to medical cannabis.” The advertisement is also associated with a well-known advertisement character for Geiko. Why are the creators writing in this way? Why is the character positioned in the way he was? Why was he facing the words? These different elements work together to produce the effect that medical marijuana is good for people and that people should buy the product.
Below the cake there is white bold capitalized letters saying “Smoking causes premature aging” which explains what may have happened to the lady. Then in bottom right corner there is a blue box advertising the product, in the box there are some words reading “Helps you stop smoking”. The target audience of this advertisement are any individuals 18 and above years of age of any gender who smoke, but more specifically the ad is geared towards women that smoke because they showed a woman who is 42 but looks like she is 70. In today’s age many women want to retain their beauty for as long as they can. The author chose this picture specifically for his ad because it illustrates what people today don’t want and that is that they don’t want to grow older faster. The author’s purpose of the ad is to persuade anyone who sees the ad to quit smoking and warn people about the dangers of smoking. The author shows their product alongside the picture because they want the audience to quit and think that only their product can help them quit. Aside from the clear picture that we can see from the ad if you think rhetorically you can see that the author is using ethos, pathos to subliminally persuade you to follow the
Many would argue that childbirth is a beautiful and miraculous event, however the process of the pregnancy is a very fragile time in the mother's life. During this time most everyone would agree that the mother should attempt to do everything that is possible to take care of her body. There are some habits, however, that an extremely difficult to break, even during a pregnancy. The practice of smoking tobacco is one of those habits. Many doctors would argue that smoking is never healthy for the body especially during a pregnancy. For years institutions have sought to produce statistical data to uncover the effects of smoking during a pregnancy. Even with the changing times, statistical studies on this topic, continue to produce the same conclusions.
The two tree-covered banks of the river converge in the distance far beyond the dingy as if to immortalize the moment. This moment, as the reader discovers, is one which should be anything but immortalized. Hidden up in the clouds is a well-camouflaged light yellow box reading "HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHY SOME KIDS YOUR AGE SMOKE CIGARETTES". As the eye continues to wander down towards the darkened water between the dingy and the camera, one arrives at some text at the bottom of the page just beyond the edge of the picture. At the right is another yellow box similar to the one up in the clouds. This one contains the text, "TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT NOT SMOKING. THEY'LL LISTEN.". On the left are two small paragraphs in plain font, containing the quote "How to start the conversation [about smoking] is up to you". The attention of the reader returns to the image, and once again sees nothing but a bleak emotionless picture. Just to make sure the advertisement does not attract any potential vacationers, the river is dotted with algae, and there is not a single artificial structure in sight. In comparison to the dozens of other ads found in magazines such as this one, nearly any reader would simply pass over it without a second thought. For those who *do* play closer attention, however, Philip Morris has carefully chosen visual queues to quickly send them on to the next page.